Associations to the word «Convene»

Wiktionary

CONVENE, verb. (intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
CONVENE, verb. (intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
CONVENE, verb. ​(transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
CONVENE, verb. (transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.

Dictionary definition

CONVENE, verb. Meet formally; "The council convened last week".
CONVENE, verb. Call together; "The students were convened in the auditorium".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats